Stability, policy and regulatory certainty and rebuilding trust have been key themes in Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe’s first year in office. Taking the reins on February 27, 2018, of a government department overseeing one of the most difficult and fragmented industries in South Africa, Mantashe, a former mineworker and union leader, found an industry “in self-doubt, believing that it is about to die, with suspicion and mistrust at a high level”.
